Tim Shadbolt is calling for urgent talks over muttonbirding, as authorities prepare to confirm the Easy Rider tragedy as being New Zealand's worst maritime disaster since the Wahine in 1968.
The Department of Internal Affairs is not investigating the Otago Rugby Football Union, but is auditing one of the cash-strapped union's major funders.
The Government will introduce tough new measures this year aimed at keeping at-risk offenders from the community, after calls from concerned groups yesterday.
With his wife unconscious after a horrific tandem bike crash, Peter Freeman ignored his own injuries- including a scalped head - to warn a passing motorist of the danger, before passing out himself.
A Dunedin recidivist child abuser who has declined rehabilitation will be released this week, a New Zealand Parole Board decision has confirmed.
Low-cost carrier AirAsia X has confirmed it will end its direct flights between Christchurch and Kuala Lumpur. Christchurch International Airport chief executive Jim Boult said he was unhappy the airport would lose the link, but understood the airline's position.
Startled pedestrians watched as a man set his jacket on fire in central Dunedin this afternoon.
Pedestrians watched in horror as a man repeatedly set fire to his jacket in central Dunedin yesterday afternoon, while another risked his life to save him.
Several hundred thousand dollars in pokie grants to the Otago Rugby Football Union for amateur rugby remain unaccounted for.
A firewood thief has chopped down fundraising efforts for a Port Chalmers community group.
A lawnmowing contractor has died in Dunedin Hospital, following an accident on a Blanket Bay farm yesterday afternoon.
The troubled Otago Rugby Football Union attempted to set up its own trust to distribute pokie profits from Auckland-based bars to Carisbrook, it has been revealed.
Rugby was granted more than $141 million in pokies grants over the past six years, raising questions over the sustainability of the country's national game.
A female petrol station attendant was held up by a man brandishing a knife in Gore early this morning.
A woman is dead following a two car crash on SH1 south of the turnoff to the Dunedin International Airport this afternoon.
The Highlanders would not be affected by the potential no-show of Otago in the ITM Cup this season, but there would be medium- and long-term impacts, franchise general manager Roger Clark says.
Rival gang members clashed a Winz office in Dunedin yesterday afternoon.
Two women with an apparent penchant for motels and a taste for curry are wanted by police after allegedly racking up thousands of dollars in unpaid bills across Otago.
The return of the world's largest youth tour operator to Dunedin will help boost visitor numbers to the Speight's Brewery by 15%.
This was a big fat Port Chalmers wedding like no other.
